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Scrubbing all "non-essential" visits.....wherever that line is drawn. Screening patients as they enter the doors of system at any location before they hit registration. Symptoms and travel questions. Temperature. If concerns raised during screening they are sent to a designated location for further eval....at least in theory that's the plan. But yesterday I got a call from a LPN screener...…."Will you still see this patient. Blah blah blah....she's asymptomatic but just got off a cruise ship last Thursday". My response....."As long as the boat didn't come from Italy". Was a 74 year old female.....an individual this whole crisis lockdown is trying to protect. Just clueless. My buddy practices just outside of Vancouver, WA. Said late in the day yesterday a patient told him AS SHE WAS LEAVING her visit...…"I might have been exposed by my daughter last this past weekend"....daughter has no confirmation but symptoms.

TP thieves. He wants to control civil unrest at those places. This just in.....Depends sales are way up. Kimberly-Clark stock is in the buy now category.

Unemployment rate 3.6 in January. New report estimates, from this crisis and at a minimum certain recession, 7.4M jobs lost from restaurant industry. Hotel industry loses a 1M+ in a few months with more thereafter. 3.6 + 2.5.....6.1%. That's the tip of the iceberg. What's the over/under timeline when Mnuchin runs out of $1000 checks?

Well........Trump might give Fauci a 9" trophy when this is over. ........and unfortunately that trophy will probably be bigger than most of the citizens of this county's future dreams.

Was visiting with my internist buddy today...…...probably been making the rounds for 3-4 months.

......and with our family members sitting at home not doing much I'm sure it does provide some entertainment for them as to our general dysfunction here if they decide to peruse this thread!

Then the "regular" flu season hits........are our kids ever going back to class with their peers?

We will. #legendary

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Right! Anyone find it ironic that THAT is now illegal in that cesspool. Guess that reduces one's risk of stepping on a needle or a pile of feces.

John Hopkins health policy expert states recent studies indicated roughly 50% infected will be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.

50+ male 20+ female Both history of domestic travels from hot spot areas

Think about this as we shut down everything everywhere.......99.9% of all businesses in the US fall under category of "small business". Think of where we are at if 5-10% of these can't recover and go under after all the dust settles from COVID.

As of tomorrow our system will be scrubbing all non-essential outpatient clinic visits from all departments for 3 weeks......to start.

If anyone thinks this society can deal with 6-8 weeks more less 6-8 months of lockdown, an unknown end point, no security financially and reduced personal freedom wise.......not even taking into account the overall mental toll those making the decision are missing the big picture. We can't as a society of 330M+ wait 6-8 months to watch the last body hit the floor before we pick up the pieces in all sectors of society and move on. Might sound jaded but we didn't bat an eye when 36K (estimated) died from this year's flu season.

Hopefully all the Rheumatology patients in this country that count on hydroxychloroquine to manage their day to day issues to help them maintain some quality of life aren't shortchanged because we are trying to throw something at the wall to see if it sticks.

Ward 60+ male Cass 20+ female with history of recent international travel

Well in MN they are letting nonviolent criminals out of jail to combat this crisis.

yzerman.........you have a call on line 3. Some guy named DeBlasio?

This whole process is a big middle finger to anyone under 24 years of age. Future? Dreams? Seems like all our nation's chips in this poker match were put on one segment of our population in this one.

Yup...….I shutter (no pun intended) to think what happens in late October when the first fever and cough combo is reported in this country.

CDC just announced a recommendation of no events of more of 50 for the next 8...…...EIGHT weeks!

How do you function like this?

Your guaranteed Trifecta winner...….under on Friday closings and 1M. Over on school being done.... I'd be surprised if they open in August.

Let's play over/under...…….Dougie caves and shutters everything in ND by 5 pm Friday. I'll say under.....well before then. Went to get donuts for the staff this morning. All now individually packaged. First guy I see in the store...….70+ male with a mask and latex gloves on. Not joking. Glad he got the memo. SMH.